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Permeation of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Through Food Packaging Materials
Barrier properties of packaging materials are important requirements when selecting and develo** optimal packaging systems. The determination of the barrier properties of a polymer film is crucial to estimat...
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Migration of Building Blocks, Additives, and Contaminants from Food Packaging Materials
Packaging plays an important role in the maintenance of the quality and safety of food products. It is also the link between the industry and the consumer, through which information is provided concerning nutr...
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Advances in Microfluidics for the Implementation of Liquid Biopsy in Clinical Routine
In recent years, we have seen major advances in the field of liquid biopsy and its implementation in the clinic, mainly driven by breakthrough developments in the area of molecular biology. New developments ha...
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Effectiveness and Release Studies of Bioactive Systems
The recent advances in food science and technology have made available alternative methods to preserve foodstuff others than those traditional processes. Active food packaging is one of those current developin...
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Tracking the maturity of industry 4.0: the perspective of a real scenario
To track industry 4.0 status, readiness models are used to analyze the state of industry 4.0 technologies’ implementation, allowing the quantification and qualification of its readiness level considering diffe...
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Assessing the ecological status of small Mediterranean rivers using benthic macroinvertebrates and macrophytes as indicators
Rivers are amongst the most threatened ecosystems in Europe. To prevent further degradation and to improve their ecological status, effective mitigation and restoration actions are needed. Those actions are pr...
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Combining biomarker and community approaches using benthic macroinvertebrates can improve the assessment of the ecological status of rivers
Indices based on community structure provide a global ecological status of the biological communities but they are of limited value as early-warning indicators of contamination. Almost two decades after the Wa...
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Assessing the ecological status of fluvial ecosystems employing a macroinvertebrate multi-taxon and multi-biomarker approach
Biomarkers are recognised sensitive early-warning tools of biological effects in aquatic organisms. In this scope, the main aim of this study was to investigate the potential usefulness of a battery of biomark...
